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#fridaysforfuture Bring Your Own Mug (Sept 27, 2019)
We’re taking $1.50 off your drink if you bring your own mug on Friday, Sept 27, 2019 and encourage you to participate in the #UnitedForClimate movement. There are currently over...
Fuego Fundraising Update: 40 Family Homes Built
Thanks to you and our staff, we raised almost $12,000 to help those devastated by the Fuego volcano in Guatemala.A year later, and Habitat for Humanity Guatemala has provided 40...
JJ Bean: Your Partner in Choosing Green
JJ Bean is proud to operate in two cities committed to leading Canada’s environmental initiatives. The City of Vancouver aspires to be the greenest city in the world by 2020,...
JJ Bean funds two clean water projects in Ethiopia with Imagine1Day & Run For Water
This summer JJ Bean Coffee Roasters raised over $70,000 with imagine1day to build a kindergarten in Haro Dumal, Ethiopia. Thanks to the generosity of customers and other partners, the original...
JJ Bean is building a kindergarten in Ethiopia with Imagine1Day
JJ Bean x imagine1day have partnered to build a kindergarten in Haro Dumal, Ethiopia. Haro Dumal is located in Oromia, a coffee growing region JJ Bean has been buying coffee...
Coffee Origin Trip: Brazil 2016
Words by Grady Buhler, Coffee Quality Leader. Photographs by David Long, Roasting Supervisor. Many of you know that we purchase coffee from Carmo Estate in Brazil on a yearly basis...
Coffee Importers And Exporters: The Unsung Heroes Of Specialty Coffee
Written by Grady Buhler, Coffee Quality Leader at JJ Bean (September 2015) Going forward, we have decided to include the name of the importer when communicating information about our coffees....
Habitat For Humanity: Guatemala 2015
This year’s Habitat team was comprised of 12 JJ staffers. Through the support of our AMAZING customers, the team was able to help build three homes in Guatemala—one in Chiquimula,...
Coffee Origin Trip: Guatemala 2014
Words by Grady Buhler, JJ Bean Coffee Quality Leader. Photos by David Long, JJ Bean Roasting Supervisor. ADISQUE The trip started off on the right foot with our connecting flight...
Coffee Origin Trip: South America 2014
Carmo Estate, Brazil: June 11 – 13, 2014 Neto Franco and I arrived in Pouso Alegre (specifically Heliodora) to see Carmo Estate on June 11. Tulio Junqueira greeted us enthusiastically...
Habitat For Humanity: El Salvador 2013
It all began with a deep desire to give back. To be able to make a direct impact to the countries that work so hard for us as a company,...
